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From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] BTL summer employees
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2020 10:48:00 +1000 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2008101044110.3620@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202008021340.072Demtg086822@tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU>

On Sun, 2 Aug 2020, Doug McIlroy wrote:

> Even high-school employees could make lasting contributions.  I am 
> indebted to Steve for a technique he conceived during his first summer 
> assignment: using macro definitions as if they were units of associative 
> memory. This view of macros stimulated previously undreamed-of uses.

I'd like to see an example or two of that...

Of course, if you want to see macros etc abused, then take a look at the 
Obfuscated C Code Contest :-)

-- Dave

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-08-10  0:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-02 13:40 Doug McIlroy
2020-08-02 13:57 ` arnold
2020-08-02 17:13   ` Doug McIlroy
2020-08-03  9:24     ` arnold
2020-08-02 15:12 ` Robert Diamond
2020-08-02 19:05   ` Jon Steinhart
2020-08-03  5:14     ` Heinz Lycklama
2020-08-03 12:55       ` John P. Linderman
2020-08-03 16:26         ` Jon Steinhart
2020-08-10  0:48 ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2020-08-10  0:53   ` Larry McVoy
2020-08-10  6:33 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2020-08-10 12:53 Noel Chiappa
2020-08-10 13:21 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2020-08-10 14:02 Noel Chiappa
2020-08-10 17:08 ` Lawrence Stewart
2020-08-10 18:13   ` Lars Brinkhoff

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